Aluminium scrap: This week, China's aluminium scrap market price centre edged up alongside primary aluminium. As of September 10, SMM A00 aluminium prices closed at RMB 24,560 per tonne, up RMB 210 per tonne from RMB 24,350 per tonne last Thursday. Domestic aluminium scrap prices followed with...
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Fortum, BAF, and Nornicket have signed a letter of intent to plan a recycling centre in Harjavalta, Finland to recover metals from electric car batteries. This would enable a successful “closed-loop” cycle to re-use the critical metals present in used batteries. “The combination of battery...
The not-for-profit organisation with over 30 years of experience representing the UK’s aluminium packaging industry, Alupro, works to fulfil the industry’s obligation to meet, and exceed, recycling targets for aluminium packaging. Alupro is also funded by the industry. Alupro, the Aluminium...
The US exports of aluminium scrap stood at 151,000 tonnes in November 2019, with a year-on-year decrease of 14.2%, according to the latest report from the US Geological Survey. Exports dropped by 3.82% from October’s export volume of 157,000 tonnes and 2.58% from September’s export volume of...
China’s environmental authorities on Saturday, March 7, announced the fourth batch of aluminium scrap import quotas for 2020, which would allow 100 more tonnes of high-grade aluminium scrap to China. With this quota, the total aluminium scrap import allowed for this year comes to 284,549 tonnes....
The aluminium scrap export of the US to Hong Kong during January18-October’18 remained at 32,200 tonnes. In 2019 the scrap export rose to 86,100 tonnes, as of Y-o-Y basis growth of 167.39% was noticed, the excess volume of 53,900 tonnes. In May’19 the US aluminium scrap export to Hong Kong stood at...
Novelis Incorporation, the world-leading aluminium rolling and recycling company, announced on Monday, March 2, that it established a recycling system with one of its automotive customers in Lower Bavaria, Germany. Novelis secures automotive aluminium scrap from BMW Group’s Dingolfing production...
In the present day, aluminium is a universally used metal in various industries. The light-weight of the metal, easy way to process and corrosion-resistant is its basic features for abroad acceptance. The consumption of aluminium has been growing on year on year basis and it is very well...
The US exported 157,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap in October 2019, from 164,000 tonnes exported in October 2018. This records an increase of 4.27% year-on-year, according to the latest report from the US Geological Survey. Exports increased by 1.29% from September’s export volume of 155,000 tonnes...
The US aluminium scrap export to Malaysia has been riding high from May-Oct’19 with total export volume stood at 158,200 tonnes. The aluminium scrap export to Malaysia in May’19 was recorded at 20,200 tonnes, whereas in June’19 it stood at 21,400 tonnes, a rise of 5.88%, with more than 1200 tones....
According to the USGS data, the United States aluminium scrap imports from Canada continued to rise in October, totalling at 34,800 tonnes. Month-on-month, the import amount rose by 7.73 per cent or 2,500 tonnes by volume, as the US in September had imported 32,300 tonnes of aluminium scrap from...
The American export of aluminium scrap to South Korea has remained steady with a total volume of 134,000 tonnes in six months from May-Oct’19. The total export to South Korea in nine months from Jan-Oct’19 was recorded at 227,000 tonnes, with 14.64% growth and in volume by 29000 tonnes from the...
China, on Tuesday, February 18, announced that it would accept applications for new tariff exemptions on aluminium and other metal scraps, besides 696 other products imported from the United States. Those products include some key agricultural and energy items and also denatured ethanol, wheat,...
German automaker BMW AG has reportedly invested 6.5 million euros in the technical retrofitting of its Dingolfing press shop for the implementation of a new system to accomplish the goal of fully recycling its scrap aluminium waste. The new system enables the press shop to separate and recycle...
The American scrap import has shown a positive trend in Aug/Sept/Oct’19 with a total volume of 145,300 tonnes. In August’19 the volume of scrap imports stood at 45,300 tonnes, whereas in September’19 the import was recorded at 47,600 tonnes, a rise of 5.07%, with 2300 tonnes in excess. During...
European Aluminium Industry has rated France as one of the key growth markets. As the country has the record of exporting more than 400,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap every year. In recent times the aluminium scrap export has been spotted with de-growth, though it was expected as the previous few...
According to Shanghai Metals Market survey, secondary aluminium operating rates in China are likely to fall to a record low of 33 per cent in February, primarily due to a week or two delays in production resumption and the slow return of workers and downstream demand after the Chinese New Year...
China’s environmental authorities on Wednesday, February 5, reportedly issued the third batch of aluminium scrap import quotas for 2020, which would allow 1,440 tonnes of high-grade aluminium scrap to enter China. This brought the total aluminium scrap allowed for imports to China to 284,449 tonnes...
Scrappage policy for old vehicles is awaiting a “fine-tune” by concerned ministries, and as soon as that is done it will be announced. Such was the statement from the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, February 1, after the Union Budget 2020-21. She said, "Scrappage policy is in the...
